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In this insightful new book, Okbazghi Yohannes examines the role of U.S. foreign policy in the Horn of Africa during & after the Cold War era, offering a comprehensive description of the fundamental policy choices of the United States & the means chosen to achieve American objectives in the region ...

In this insightful new book, Okbazghi Yohannes examines the role of U.S. foreign policy in the Horn of Africa during & after the Cold War era, offering a comprehensive description of the fundamental policy choices of the United States & the means chosen to achieve American objectives in the region. The book examines the extent to which the American role in the African Horn aided or impeded the emergence of political democracy & the promotion of economic development within the region. Challenging conventional approaches, The United States & the Horn of Africa presents dispassionate analyses & reinterpretations of American regional interests, priorities, options, & consequences from a structuralist perspective.

Sidney Hook (1902-1989) was a philosopher, a college professor, America's leading disciple of John Dewey, and, during the 1930s, perhaps America's most significant explicator of Karl Marx. He was also for many years arguably the country's most astute and important anti-communist intellectual. This ...

Sidney Hook (1902-1989) was a philosopher, a college professor, America's leading disciple of John Dewey, and, during the 1930s, perhaps America's most significant explicator of Karl Marx. He was also for many years arguably the country's most astute and important anti-communist intellectual. This volume is the first devoted to his private letters. Selected from the voluminous collection of his papers at the Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford University and spanning the years 1929 to 1987, the letters contain Hook's views on such subjects as war and peace, Marxism and communism, the Soviet Union, the Spanish Civil War, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War. Hook was a prolific letter writer, and he corresponded with a great variety of individuals. Some were strangers who had written to him concerning an article or book review he had just published, others were prominent intellectuals - among them Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., to name just a few - and still others were public officials. Hook saw himself, above all, as a teacher, and as a teacher he felt it his duty to discuss with anyone who would listen his conception of the obligations of democratic citizenship. Hook had enormous faith in the power of education and reason and in the soundness of America's democratic institutions and values. That faith is reflected in these letters.

Everybody spied on everybody else during the Cold War. France had agents in the U.S., China had agents in East Germany, Poland had agents in Great Britain, and the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. had agents everywhere--in governments, in industry, in the military, and within each other's, and their own ...

Everybody spied on everybody else during the Cold War. France had agents in the U.S., China had agents in East Germany, Poland had agents in Great Britain, and the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. had agents everywhere--in governments, in industry, in the military, and within each other's, and their own, intelligence agencies. A-Z entries provide a fascinating glimpse into the subterranean world, events, people and operations of the Cold War.

The rhetoric that immediately followed World War II created the political environment that resulted in a new world order, and in this work Hinds and Windt examine how this national and international reality developed. They study the process that led to perceptions of threat, and subsequent policies ...

The rhetoric that immediately followed World War II created the political environment that resulted in a new world order, and in this work Hinds and Windt examine how this national and international reality developed. They study the process that led to perceptions of threat, and subsequent policies based on these perceptions, by exploring the pre-existing set of rhetorical beliefs as well as the speeches and addresses that built upon them. Among the topics covered are Churchill's Iron Curtain speech, the Truman Doctrine, and Marshall's speech announcing the Marshall Plan.